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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mattingly suggests modern Germany thinks of "The Germania" in what way?

2. How did Agricola's successes become so famous?

3. What did Tacitus deny existed in Germany?

4. According to Mattingly, what seems to be missing from Tacitus' accounts of Britain?

5. Tacitus claimed the British military's strength was in __________.

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Tacitus compare the living arrangements of the Germans to the Romans?

2. Describe how Tacitus wrote about Agricola's role as a military apprentice under Suetonius Paulinus.

3. Tacitus believed what was the general custom concerning the dead in Germany?

4. What did Tacitus intend to write in his old age, but why was it never written?

5. Who were Titus and Domitian and what was their relationship to the Roman Empire?

6. What about Agricola 's military strategy and career was criticized by Tacitus?

7. Tacitus wrote "The Hundred" was what significance to Germany?

8. Describe reasons why the British believed "peacetime" under Roman rule was equivalent to slavery.

9. What were some false beliefs Tacitus had about Britain?

10. Why did Tacitus provide so much British history in "The Agricola?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the strengths of Britain that helped them resist and eventually drive off the Romans, and the weaknesses that allowed the Romans to rule over them for a certain period.

Essay Topic 2

What evidence in "The Agricola" shows the story was as much a eulogy as a biography?

Essay Topic 3

"The Agricola" is a "portrait of a career," according to Mattingly. How is this appropriate as a biography for both the writer Tacitus and the subject Agricola?

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